The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve their software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect free, within budget and on time, every time.

Year in Review 2016

The SEI Year in Review, an annual report of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University, spotlights projects and initiatives that demonstrate the SEI's value to its sponsors and customers in government and industry, and which demonstrate the ways in which the SEI is advancing the field of software engineering to meet emerging challenges.

From the Director

I’m pleased to present this year’s edition of the Software Engineering Institute’s Year in Review. This edition highlights some of our most prominent research and development accomplishments for the fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2016. These initiatives reflect how we have aligned our technical priorities with pervasive and pressing needs for the acquisition, development, operation, and sustainment of software systems that are innovative, affordable, trustworthy, and enduring. They also demonstrate the impact we make on behalf of our sponsors and customers, including the Department of Defense (DoD); the Federal Aviation Administration; Joint Federated Assurance Center; the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center; and the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. Through our work in autonomy and counter autonomy, C4ISR mission assurance, cybersecurity, data modeling and analytics, human-machine interactions, software engineering and information assurance, and system verification and validation, we strive to lead and advance the fields of software and cybersecurity to solve the nation’s toughest problems.